Development Team

Care UK’s reputation for innovation is partly founded on the development of new models of care, which increasingly span the interface between health and social care. This understanding of the health and social care spectrum places Care UK in a unique position in today’s market. Driving forward the development of care the Development Team is organised around four business units:

Residential Care Services – operating care homes and independent hospitals for older people. Focussing on a specialist range of services, principally for older people, with particular emphasis on rehabilitation and complex needs as well as to provide residential care for higher acuity needs, including frail nursing, dementia care working in conjunction with our community care division. Activity Based Care a genuinely original style of residential care has been developed by this division.

Community Care Services – focussed on supporting people in their own homes caring for older people and others with specialist needs. Care UK has been a key player in the development of person centred, outcome based care at national level.

Health Care Services – providing a range of diagnostic, acute and primary care services which includes our joint venture with Partnership Health Group Ltd.

Specialist Care Services – providing a range of specialist services which are linked by psychiatric, therapeutic or social and behavioural needs within the areas of Learning Disabilities, Mental Health and Children’s Care including Foster Care.

Meet the Team

Geoff Benn – Group Development Director and Health Care Special Projects Director

Geoff joined Care UK in January 2003. With over 17 years of sales, marketing and business development experience in health. Geoff’s experience includes opening and managing a 70-bed for theatre independent acute medical/surgical hospital in North East London. In 1989 he joined PPP as Managing Director of its Health Services Division, then joined Nuffield Hospitals in 1992 leading their business development activities. Geoff has a successful track record in developing innovative partnership solutions across the private and public sectors and has a responsibility for all aspects of the company marketing mix. In his role as Health Care Special Projects Director Geoff will work with Mark Hunt, Managing Director Primary Care and Sushil Jathanna, Managing Director Secondary Care, to ensure that our strategic plans and development activities are cohesive and optimised and to assist them with key projects.

Tel. 01206 517237     Mob. 07778 590970     Email.

Philippa Codd, Business Development Director - Community Care

Philippa has been part of the Care UK Team for 13 years, starting as a Care Worker and progressing to Branch Manager, Regional Manager and Development Director, a post she has held since 2004. Philippa has spent the last year leading the modernisation and development of community based services devoted to meeting outcomes, and is now working to develop outcome based care alongside Individual Budgets. Philippa has developed a number of other services including Continuing Care and End of Life Care, which have enabled care with a high volume of nursing care to move towards social care. Philippa is a member of the Better Outcomes Steering Group.

Tel. 01206 752552     Mob. 07887 781131    Email.

Philippa is supported by:

• Caleb Atkins – Regional Director South
• Malcolm Fitter – Regional Director North
• Donna Cousins – Regional Director East Anglia
• Jason Warren – Regional Director Midlands
• Mike Goldsmith – Regional Director London
• Ann Taylor – Regional Director Kent
• Libby Eastley – Contract Development Director

Richard Pearman, Development Director - Residential Care

Richard joined Care UK in 1997. He was appointed Business Development Manager in 1999, Directors of projects in 2002 and in 2003, Development Director for Older People. He now leads the development of Care UK’s residential based services for older people and on integrated partnership projects with other Care UK divisions and external partners. Richard has also led Care UK’s highly successful partnership with Hanover Housing Association and is very experienced in all aspects of controlled health and social care services for older people. He has contributed to all of Care UK’s older people schemes since 1997, including those procured under PFI.

Tel. 01206 517254     Mob. 07799 347997    Email.

Richard is supported by:

• Katie Creek – Partnership Development Manager
• Tony Weedon  - Projects Director
• Jen Adams – Project Development Manager
• Karen Seabrook – Project Development Manager
• Karen Morrison – Project Development Manager

Philip Housden - Business Development Director – Specialist Care

Philip joined Care UK in February 2008. Philip's has over 20 years broad experience of the health care market gained in both the NHS and independent sectors. Early acute hospital management jobs in London were followed by health authority board level posts in Hampshire and Surrey. After his MBA Philip managed independent hospitals in the South and led investment projects across the BUPA Hospitals group. Since 2006 Philip has developed a management consultancy practice with clients drawn from both public and private sectors. Philip now has responsibility for developing new business, coordinating and leading on business acquisitions and project managing greenfield developments for specialist care services: mental health and learning disabilities.

Tel. 01206 752552     Mob. 07809 738390     Email.

Phillip is supported by:

• Janice Gow - Director Learning Disabilities Scotland
• Angela Halfpenny – Learning Disabilities - Service Development Manager North
• Maureen Kieffer – Learning Disabilities - Service Development Manager South
• Mark Pomell – Children’s Services – Director of Fostering
• Mark Williams – Children’s Services - Regional Director North
• Angela Geer – Children’s Services – Regional Director South
• Martin Davies – Mental Health Operational Lead Eating Disorders & Self Harm
• Martin Boggin  - Mental Health Interim Regional Manager Care Homes
• Steve Reader – Mental Health Acting Regional Manager Hospitals

Andrew Russell - Group Director of New Ventures and Interim Business Development Director – Primary Care

Andrew has over 10 years experience in the field of care provision; he co-founded the company Homecaring Ltd IN 1993 and as Operations Director developed it into a seven branch homecare operator, providing services to local authorities in Hampshire Dorset and Wiltshire.

The company was sold to Care UK and Andrew was appointed Business Development Director of Care UK Homecare. Two years later he led the acquisition of Direct Manpower Limited, now a subsidiary of Care UK Plc. As Managing Director of Direct Manpower, Andrew developed its service provision of supplying locum doctors to NHS Trusts.

Appointed in 2002 as Director of New Business Ventures Andrew has successfully led Care UK’s entry into the following markets through acquisition; Children’s, Eating Disorders and Self Harm, Fostering and the Acute Healthcare sector by successfully bidding for the Department of Health Independent Treatment Centre Contracts, in which Care UK have been very successful.

Tel. 01206 752552      Mob. 07831 424780     Email.

Andrew is supported by:

• Martin Fowler - Business Development Manager Primary Care
• Mike Scott-  Business Development Manager Primary Care
• Mark Featherstone - Business Development Manager Primary Care